Ever looked in the mirror and wondered what incredible, and sometimes unsettling, secrets your own body might be holding?

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related diseases. The ancient strain doesn’t fit neatly into modern categories, ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

More than 150 human diseases — including Lou Gehrig’s, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s — are linked to mitochondrial failure, and one Nebraska scientist is working to decode why. A five-year, $2 million ...

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A debilitating infection from the parasitic Guinea worm is inching closer to global eradication, with an all-time low of only 10 human cases reported worldwide in 2025, the Carter Center announced. If ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Greg Licholai writes and teaches about innovation in healthcare. The latest breakthrough in Nature demonstrates something ...

NEARING ERADICATION: 2025 saw the lowest number of human Guinea worm cases ever recorded, a year after the passing of former ...

DNA repair is essential for the maintenance of genomic stability and its failure can lead to human disease. Various DNA repair systems exist, such as base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, ...

A genetics‑guided drug, compound 6, targets CARD9 to subtly calm gut inflammation in Crohn’s disease, pointing to safer, ...